Sony Corporation

Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Sony Electronics Inc

Other

Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation

Sony Mobile Communications Inc.

Fujitsu Mobile Communications Limited

Philips Electronics N.v.

Makoto Kawamura

Yasushi Fujinami

Jun Yonemitsu

Ryuichi Iwamura

Shunji Yoshimura

Mutsuo Akao

Yoshinori Shimizu

Sukendeep Samra

Hiroyuki Osanai

Shingo Kawabe

Yoichi Yagasaki

Yoshio Hara

Tomihiro Nakagawa

Kyoko Nakamura

Koji Nakai

Kazutoshi Watanabe

Takashi Totsuka

Wiebe De Haan

Masataka Kato

Takashi Kawakami

Yoshiyuki Akiyama

Shunsuke Kunieda

Junichi Tsukamoto

Takayuki Usami

Markus H Veltman

Ryoichi Ando

Mark A Van Den Bergen

Shigehiro Shimada

Mitsuhiro Nishibe

Tomotaka Ogino

Noriko Chiba

Kazunori Ueda

Bruno Sargeant

Sidhartha Deb

Farhana Bandukwala

The system provides different ways for users to select an object and an action to be applied to the object in computer applications such as image processing or digital post-production. The user can select an object first and then an action, or vice versa. The user can also use gestural input to designate both an object and action virtually simultaneously. Multiple view, or windows, of an image can be independently sized, zoomed, panned, etc. Any effects performed on the image appear in all of the windows since each window shows (potentially) different portions of the same image content. A navigation window helps a user move within a large image or diagram that does not fit entirely on a single display screen. The navigation window includes an inner box that shows, in miniature, the principal objects in the screen display.

Digital video editing system including multiple viewing windows of a same image

The portable terminal includes a display unit configured to display a screen; a first buffer and a second buffer configured to sequentially store display data for the displayed screen; a first determination unit configured to determine whether to perform single-buffer control or double-buffer control based on update data for the displayed screen; and a setting unit configured to set, if single-buffer control is appropriate, a display control method of the display unit to a display control method using the first buffer and to set, if double-buffer control is appropriate, a display control method of the display unit to a display control method using the first buffer and the second buffer.

Portable terminal

Multiple views, or windows, of an image of flowgraph nodes can be modified to facilitate viewing the nodes. In one embodiment, each window includes at least one boundary that is shared with another window so that when a window is changed by moving a particular boundary it causes another window sharing the particular boundary to correspondingly change. Window subsections can be used for viewing a different portion of the image.

User interface for a digital production system including multiple window viewing of flowgraph nodes

A mobile terminal device that has a short range wireless communications unit performing short range wireless communications. A personal information storage unit storing a set of simple personal information relevant to the user of the mobile terminal device and a set of contact information for the user attached to the set of simple personal information and inhibited from being displayed on a device receiving this information.

Mobile terminal device, computer executable program for exchanging personal information, and method and system for exchanging personal information

An optical disk having a diameter less than 140 mm and, a thickness of 1.2 mm&#xb1;0.1 mm, with a plurality of record tracks having data recorded thereon as embossed pits representing information and exhibiting a track pitch in the range between 0.646 &#x3bc;m and 1.05 &#x3bc;m; with the tracks being divided into a lead-in area, a program area and a lead-out area. The data includes table of contents (TOC) information recorded in a plurality of sectors in at least one TOC track and user information recorded in a plurality of sectors in user tracks; with the TOC information including addresses of start sectors recorded in the user tracks. The data (both user and TOC information) is encoded in a long distance error correction code having at least eight parity symbols, and is run length limited (RLL) modulated.

Optical disk and method and apparatus for recording and then playing information back from that disk

The present invention provides remarkably improved availability in a data recording method and apparatus, a data recording medium, and a data reproducing method and apparatus. By recording additional information for data reproduction in each sector on a data reproducing medium as a subcode separately from data when the data is recorded in the unit of sector, reproduction of data can be controlled using the subcode, thus making it possible to remarkably improve the availability of the data recording medium.

Data recording method and apparatus, data recording medium, and data reproducing method and apparatus

Information carrier, device for reading and device for providing the information carrier and method of transmitting picture information. The disclosed system comprises an information carrier () on which an information signal is recorded that represents picture information intended for being displayed on a picture screen, which picture information comprises video information of a video programme as well as control information for selectively displaying the video programme. The video programme is subdivided into sections () and, when the video programme is displayed selectively, sections are shown in a new order () and partly omitted or replaced. To this end the control information includes path information () which indicates a path of sections to be displayed in linked fashion. The path information may be recorded multiplexed with MPEG-2 video information and then contains addresses () for forward and backward jumps.

Information carrier, device for reading and device for providing the information carrier and method of transmitting picture information

Method and apparatus for reproducing MPEG-compressed video data and compressed audio data from an optical disk having a diameter less than 140 mm and, a thickness of 1.2 mm&#xb1;0.1 mm, with a plurality of record tracks having data recorded thereon as embossed pits representing information and exhibiting a track pitch in the range between 0.646 &#x3bc;m and 1.05 &#x3bc;m; with the tracks being divided into a lead-in area, a program area and a lead-out area. The data includes table of contents (TOC) information recorded in a plurality of sectors in at least one TOC track and user information recorded in a plurality of sectors in user tracks. The user information is comprised of MPEG-compressed video data, which may exhibit any one of difference MPEG formats, and compressed audio data, which likewise may exhibit an MPEG format, a PCM format or the like. The TOC information includes addresses of start sectors recorded in the user tracks and also includes application table of contents (ATOC) information which identifies various parameters for accessing and using the user information. The data (both user, TOC and ATOC information) is encoded in a long distance error correction code having at least eight parity symbols.

Method for reproducing compressed information data from a disk using a spatial frequency less than the track pitch

In order to provide a packaging for a rolled photosensitive material, in which a rolled photosensitive material packaging body is accommodated in a container in a state in which the rolled photosensitive material packaging body is suspended, which, even if an outside diameter of an insert shaft of a supporting body changes due to shaping failure or change of size of the rolled photosensitive material, enables to cope with this change, protruding pieces which protrude substantially toward a center of an opening in which the insert shaft is inserted are provided at circumference of the opening of the supporting body, an inside diameter of the opening is larger than an outside diameter of the insert shaft and an inside diameter of a circle formed by connecting tip ends of the protruding pieces is smaller than the outside diameter of the insert shaft.

Packaging for rolled photosensitive material

A system for processing images, or clips, as, for example, in a movie or video post production system. The clips are associated with a flowgraph representation that visually depicts all of the operations used to generate the clips. Correspondence between the image and flowgraph representations is tightly maintained so that the user can conveniently switch between, and work among, the different representations. Efficient user interface mechanisms are provided to work with flowgraph items to construct nodes representing operations. Nodes can be joined in an automated, or assisted, manner. Flowgraphs can be automatically generated according to user inputs in other parts of the system. For example, layered effects can have flowgraphs that are automatically generated. A freehand drawing timing capture tool is provided. All operations that contribute to a single (or more) pixel's value can be listed and selectively activated or deactivated to detect a problem. Any input mechanism can be bookmarked with a labeled value so that the labeled value can be called up at a later time to restore a setting, or multiple settings. A method for using a trilinear look-up table to computer various functions where the table resolution can change is disclosed.

Media production system using flowgraph representation of operations

An image recording material magazine is provided that has a constitution such that a roll-form image recording material rotatably provided within a casing is drawn out through a slot provided along its whole length in the longitudinal direction with a resilient plate having a force pressing it so as to close the slot and with a cloth member abutting against the plate, the plate being fixed to a support part, which is provided within the magazine in the vicinity of the slot, at an angle that allows a force pressing the material in its thickness direction to be generated when the material is drawn out. The plate is formed from a polyolefin based resin plastic sheet having a water absorption of 0.01 wt % or less, has its surface embossed, and has its tip portion formed with a curved surface so that the embossed surface abuts against the image recording material.

Roll-form image recording material magazine

An optical disk having a diameter less than 140 mm and, a thickness of 1.2 mm&plusmn;0.1 mm, with a plurality of record tracks having data recorded thereon as embossed pits representing information and exhibiting a track pitch in the range between 0.646 &mgr;m and 1.05 &mgr;m; with the tracks being divided into a lead-in area, a program area and a lead-out area. The data includes table of contents (TOC) information recorded in a plurality of sectors in at least one TOC track and user information recorded in a plurality of sectors in user tracks; with the TOC information including addresses of start sectors recorded in the user tracks. The data (both user and TOC information) is encoded in a long distance error correction code having at least eight parity symbols, and is run length limited (RLL) modulated.

Optical disk having a particular format to store user-selected data, such as video data or computer files, including a dedicated TOC region

An optical disk having a diameter less than 140 mm and, a thickness of 1.2 mm&plusmn;0.1 mm, with a plurality of record tracks having data recorded thereon as embossed pits representing information and exhibiting a track pitch in the range between 0.646 &mgr;m and 1.05 &mgr;m; with the tracks being divided into a lead-in area, a program area and a lead-out area. The data includes table of contents (TOC) information recorded in a plurality of sectors in at least one TOC track and user information recorded in a plurality of sectors in user tracks. The user information is comprised of MPEG-compressed video data, which may exhibit any one of difference MPEG formats, and compressed audio data, which likewise may exhibit an MPEG format, a PCM format or the like. The TOC information includes addresses of start sectors recorded in the user tracks and also includes application table of contents (ATOC) information which identifies various parameters for accessing and using the user information. The data (both user, TOC and ATOC information) is encoded on a long distance error correction code having at least eight parity symbols.

OPTICAL DISK HAVING A PARTICULAR FORMAT TO STORE USER-SELECTED DATA, SUCH AS COMPRESSED VIDEO DATA OR COMPUTED FILES, INCLUDING A DEDICATED TOC REGION AND AN APPLICATION TOC TO IDENTIFY THE VIDEO COMPRESSION FORMAT

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Makoto Kawamura